Prison News

A former handyman serving life in prison for the 1993 murder of seven people at a suburban Chicago restaurant has been awarded nearly a half-million dollars in a civil lawsuit in which he alleged a jail guard punched him in the face.

Peru's government says that once Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot completes his murder conviction in 2038, he will be extradited to the United States to face trial on charges he extorted and defrauded the mother of a young American woman for whose disappearance he is the chief suspect.

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Inmates and staff have put up murals and military paraphernalia at a southern Ohio prison to create what they call a "Veterans Corridor" in tribute to people who served in the U.S. military.

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The trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and al-Qaida spokesman after the Sept.

In this July 3, 2013 file photo, former Metropolitan Detention Center guard, Nancy Gonzalez, center, listens as her attorney, Anthony Rico, speaks to members of the media outside the federal courthouse in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Prison guards meet in the desert to hand off chemicals for executions. A corrections boss loaded with cash travels to a pharmacy in another state to buy lethal sedatives.

Was it a terror attack? Two people aboard missing Boeing 777 were traveling on STOLEN PASSPORTS as three US passengers named and oil slick forms in sea where plane is feared to have crashed Mother arrested after her three abandoned kids, aged five, four and one, walked alone in the freezing cold to a police station and asked for a ride to school ... (more)

California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions.

Hostilities intensified in Crimea on Saturday as Ukrainian officials accused pro-Russian forces of armed aggression and President Barack Obama rounded up world leaders to demand Russia "de-escalate the situation."

One of two inmates who killed a federal correctional officer at U.S. Penitentiary Atwater will spend the rest of his life in prison in exchange for a guilty plea, under a plea bargain reportedly approved by Attorney General Eric Holder.

Alleged gang members are presented to the media at the National Police Headquarters after their capture in San Salvador, El Salvador, Thursday, March.

This Aug. 15, 2012 photo shows Raymond Roth, center, as he is escorted by law enforcement officers to the Long Island State Park Police Headquarters, in Babylon, N.Y. Roth already facing prison time for faking his own drowning in an insurance fraud scheme was convicted Friday, March 7, 2014 of impersonating a police officer, but he was cleared of ... (more)

The government is falling short in assessing the risks of a program that allows tens of thousands of foreign students to stay in the United States and work for close to 2 1/2 years, according to a newly released report from the Government Accountability Office.

But while police responded to the domestic violence call, one of the officers took the 31-year-old woman into an upstairs bedroom and sexually assaulted her, authorities said.

The FBI has launched an investigation of the Corrections Corporation of America over the company's running of an Idaho prison with a reputation so violent that inmates dubbed it "Gladiator School."

Two months into their journey to the United States, he and his wife are sleeping most nights in an old, worn Nissan.

A convicted murderer who escaped from a Michigan prison on Super Bowl Sunday used snow-white thermal underwear, hobby scissors, his belt and a dose of inattention from prison guards to sneak out, the state Department of Corrections has concluded in a newly released report.

United Nations human rights experts demanded answers Thursday from Venezuela's government about the use of violence and imprisonment in a crackdown on widespread demonstrations.